The personal <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account of Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) was restored after a brief suspension on Wednesday.
The lawmaker said that the reason for the suspension was not immediately clear. “Twitter did not alert me ahead of time, nor have they yet offered an explanation for the suspension,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1630999446149373953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> from his official account during his suspension. “My team and I are seeking answers.”
The suspension came after Lee posted a number of tweets on Tuesday exhorting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to release Navy Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, who is serving a three-year prison sentence for his purported role in a fatal car crash two years ago. The lawmaker told Kishida that he had until midnight to release the sailor before Lee sought to remove military aid from Japan, with which the United States is an ally.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve made your choice,&#8221; Lee said shortly after the midnight deadline, according to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-mike-lee-demands-release-us-navy-vet-imprisoned-japan-threatens-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Fox News. &#8220;I hope you&#8217;re ready for some conversations on the Senate floor that you&#8217;re not likely to enjoy. This issue isn&#8217;t going away, and neither am I.&#8221;
A number of lawmakers, including Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), asked Twitter CEO Elon Musk why Lee was suspended. The world’s richest man acquired Twitter at the end of last year for $44 billion and announced that he wanted to return freedom of expression to the platform.
Lee&#8217;s account was <a class="c-link" href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1631014946208206855" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1631014946208206855" data-sk="tooltip_parent">restored</a> on Wednesday afternoon, although the lawmakers says there is “still no explanation” from the company on what happened. Musk then <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1631030915810967552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> that the account was &#8220;incorrectly flagged as impersonation.&#8221;
Lee was suspended less than one month after Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) temporarily lost access to his Twitter account after he changed his profile photo to an image from a hunting trip with his wife, Cindy Daines. The post stood in violation of Twitter rules against “graphic violence or adult content in profile images,” according to a <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelDumke9/status/1622940946076672006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice</a> from the social media company shared by Daines spokeswoman Rachel Dumke. “We consider graphic violence to be any form of gory media related to death, serious injury, violence, or surgical procedures,” the notice continued.
The picture, which showed Cindy Daines and her husband posing next to an antelope she had killed, appeared to show little blood apart from some drops on the animal’s front leg. There were no firearms or other weapons shown in the picture.
Musk vowed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-being-fixed-musk-responds-after-gop-senator-was-locked-out-of-twitter-over-hunting-picture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolve</a> the issue after officials such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) voiced concern. “This is being fixed,” the entrepreneur remarked. “Policy against showing blood in profile pic is being amended to ‘clearly showing blood without clicking on the profile pic.’ The intent is to avoid people being forced to see gruesome profile pics.”
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Musk previously <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> advertisers that he purchased the company to “have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.” At the same time, he has expressed a desire to refrain from promoting what he deems to be radical left-wing and right-wing content on the site; he vowed that the social media platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” where users could breach the law with impunity or splinter into “echo chambers.”

Sen. Mike Lee.

Utah Senator Mike Lee’s Twitter Account Restored After Suspension

Utah Senator Mike Lee Suspended From Twitter, Other Lawmakers Ask Musk Why

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Republican senators pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on enforcing a federal law against protests outside Supreme Court justices&#8217; homes.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) set a focus on demonstrators carrying signs and shouting slogans outside the residences of justices after the 2022 leak and issuance of the Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization case, which determined that abortion is not a constitutional right.
Lee, a former law clerk, said it is &#8220;very clear&#8221; that protesters are trying to influence jurisprudence in potential violation of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1507" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18 U.S. Code § 1507</a>, which prohibits pickets or parades near the house of a judge with the intent of influencing or impeding the administration of justice.
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Mike Lee questions Merrick Garland on the political persecution of peaceful pro-life activists &#8211; March 1st 2023 <a href="https://t.co/V57i1ChLg7">pic.twitter.com/V57i1ChLg7</a>
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Garland said he did not know the answer when asked if anyone has been charged under the statute, but stressed that the U.S. Marshals Service, a bureau of the Justice Department, is focused on protecting justices and their families and can make arrests if the situation calls for it.
&#8220;As soon as the Dobbs draft leaked I ordered the Marshals to do something that the United States Marshals had never in history done before, which was protect the justices&#8217; homes, residences, and lives 24-7,&#8221; he testified.
Garland said 70 U.S. Marshals were assigned to this task, and attributed this deployment to foiling the plans of a man arrested and charged with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-id-armed-man-who-said-he-wanted-to-kill-supreme-court-justice-kavanaugh-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempting to murder</a> Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
State and local officials have &#8220;similar&#8221; authorities, noted Garland, who then said he did not know what, if any, actions they have taken.
Lee appeared unsatisfied with Garland&#8217;s answers.
&#8220;It is concerning to me when you show up at the home of a public official. You&#8217;re sending the message of implicit violence,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;You&#8217;re sending the message, &#8216;We know where you sleep.&#8217; &#8216;We know where you and your family are most vulnerable.'&#8221;
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During another round of questioning, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) picked back up on the issue of protecting Supreme Court justices. Cruz asked the attorney general point blank if protesting outside the home of a judge intent with the intent of influencing that judge in a pending case is a federal crime. Garland said the answer is &#8220;yes.&#8221;
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and AG Garland go back and forth over protesters outside SCOTUS justices’ homes.
Cruz: “How did you choose not to enforce this statute?”
Garland: “The marshals on scene …”
Cruz: “Marshals don’t make that decision.”
Garland: “They do make the decision!” <a href="https://t.co/FlPLy8etU3">pic.twitter.com/FlPLy8etU3</a>
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The exchange turned confrontational as Cruz accused the Justice Department and Garland of inaction as &#8220;extremist groups&#8221; shared personal information not only about the justices, but also members of their families.
&#8220;Your failure to act to protect the safety of the justices and their families was an obvious product of political bias!&#8221; Cruz said.
Garland rejected claims of political bias and asserted he did not sit idly by in protecting the justices.

Merrick Garland

GOP Senators Confront Garland On Protesters Outside Homes Of Supreme Court Justices

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After a closed-door briefing this week on all the balloons and unidentified flying objects being shot down in U.S. skies of late, a reporter caught up with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and asked what he learned.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t learn a darn thing,&#8221; Lee said.
&#8220;Did you get any answers as to what those other objects were,&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;Not at all,&#8221; the senator said.
But Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) was either at a different briefing or paid closer attention. He offered a slew of information about the UFOs and the Chinese balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina last week.
&#8220;We’ve already recovered a lot of the debris from what [the briefer] referred to as &#8216;the Chinese spy balloon,&#8217; including propulsion equipment. They expect to gain significant intelligence from the recovery,&#8221; he said in a post on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffjacksonnc/video/7200123875269692715" target="_blank" rel="noopener">substack</a>.
The Chinese balloon led the U.S. to take action. &#8220;After the incident with the spy balloon, a decision was made to start scrutinizing our air space more closely. Adjustments were made to how we process a lot of the data we collect about what’s flying overhead,&#8221; Jackson said.
&#8220;[T]he vast majority of the data wasn’t being processed because there was no single system that exists for the purpose of identifying these kinds of objects,&#8221; he added.
Jackson also gave some details about the other UFOs, which he referred to as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
&#8220;The three UAPs that have been shot down since then were all &#8216;fundamentally different&#8217; from the spy balloon in that they were much smaller and they were flying much lower, between 20,000 and 30,000 feet. That put them within the altitude band for civilian air traffic, which was a factor in the decision to shoot them down. By contrast, the spy balloon was at an altitude of 60,000,&#8221; Jackson wrote.
The lawmaker added that the three UAVs were flying in proximity to a Department of Defense &#8220;sensitive location,&#8221; noting that was also a factor in shooting them down.
In addition, the UAVs did not have the required signal devices on board. &#8220;In the U.S., academic and commercial balloons have to include transponders that let the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] know where they are at all times. These UAPs did not appear to have transponders, and that was also a factor in the decision to shoot them down,&#8221; Jackson said.
The congressman also gave details about the size and shapes of the crafts. &#8220;Of the three UAPs, one was much larger than the other two. Its size and shape is consistent with a balloon. The other two were roughly the size of &#8216;an ATV or a four-wheeler,'&#8221; he said.
Jackson noted that there’s no evidence at this point that any of the three UAVs were &#8220;doing anything nefarious and each of them could turn out to be academic or commercial. We won’t know until they’re recovered.&#8221;
In that effort, Jackson laid out exactly where the three UAVs are now.
<ul>
<li>&#8220;One UAV was shot down over Alaska. The debris is believed to be on an ice cap, which is moving, and the temperature is -50 with the wind chill.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;A second UAV was shot down in Canada in some very tall, snowy mountains. We’re assisting Canadians with trying to locate the debris.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;A third UAV was shot down near the US/Canada border but is probably on the Canadian side. Another joint effort is underway.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Lawmaker Reveals What Info He Got During Closed-Door Briefing On UFOs

Rep. Jeff Jackson Reveals What Info He Got During Closed-Door Briefing On UFOs

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President Joe Biden started off his State of the Union address with a wonderful call for unity.
&#8220;You know, we’re often told that Democrats and Republicans can’t work together. But over the past two years, we proved the cynics and naysayers wrong,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there’s no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well.&#8221;
But then he got nasty.
&#8220;So my — many of — some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage — I get it — unless I agree to their economic plans. All of you at home should know what those plans are. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans — some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I’m not saying it’s a majority &#8211;&#8221;
<blockquote>AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE PRESIDENT: Let me give you —
AUDIENCE: No!
THE PRESIDENT: Anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I’ll give you a copy. I’ll give you a copy of the proposal.</blockquote>
But that hasn&#8217;t happened. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has offered an 11-point plan that includes a proposal for every piece of federal legislation to sunset after five years. If the legislation works, Congress could simply renew it.
Yet Democrats love their &#8220;Mediscare.&#8221; They love telling the American people that the GOP is going to attack the most vulnerable in our nation &#8212; knowing full well that it&#8217;s not true.
For his part, Scott <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3849304-scott-doubles-down-on-sunsetting-all-federal-programs-after-bidens-jab/">dismissed</a> Biden’s accusations as a “dishonest move” by a “very confused president.” “I will not be intimidated by Joe Biden twisting my words,” he added.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, too, has pondered reformations to Social Security.
“There are modest reforms in entitlements that can be done without disadvantaging anybody at the point of the need,” Pence <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3843718-pence-weve-got-to-have-a-conversation-about-reforming-social-security/">said</a> last week. That isn&#8217;t exactly doing away with the entitlement programs.
Pence has also suggested the U.S. government let younger Americans put part of their Social Security withholdings into a private savings account, but that idea went nowhere when George W. Bush proposed it back in the aughts.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has gone further, saying in 2010, it &#8220;will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it.&#8221;
After backlash, he walked that back, eventually <a href="https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2022/oct/29/in-his-own-words-a-convesation-with-sen-mike-lee/">proposing</a> a privatization plan similar to Pence&#8217;s.
Other Republicans have suggested moving the threshold age for Medicare to 67 and for Social Security to 70 in an attempt to reduce costs. But Republicans joined Democrats this year in boosting Social Security by 14% in the 2023 budget, and Medicare is set for a $32 billion increase, taking its gross spending on benefits above $1 trillion.
So Republicans don&#8217;t really want to do away with either program. But Biden got himself worked up into a tizzy, foaming at the mouth as he said, &#8220;Those benefits belong to the American people. They earned it. And if anyone tries to cut Social Security &#8230; if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I’ll stop them. I’ll veto it.&#8221;
&#8220;And, look, I’m not going to allow them to take away — be taken away. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.&#8221;
Well, no one&#8217;s trying to do that, Mr. President. And you know that.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

President Biden Delivers State Of The Union Address

Republicans Aren’t Really Trying To Kill Social Security And Medicare, And Biden Knows It

Republicans Aren't Really Trying To Kill Social Security And Medicare, And President Joe Biden Knows It

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Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitch-mcconnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitch McConnell</a> (R-KY) removed Sens. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rick-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rick Scott</a> (R-FL) and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) from the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday after the two lawmakers attempted to oust the veteran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> leader.
Scott claimed during an <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3840167-mcconnell-pulls-rival-rick-scott-off-powerful-commerce-committee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Hill that McConnell “kicked” him off the Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over science, transportation, technology, and a host of interstate commerce issues. Scott reportedly learned of the decision in a text message and was “furious,” one source told the outlet, which added that other conservatives concur that the failed leadership bid was a major factor behind the removal.
“This is what happens when you challenge leadership,” he said in a statement to The Daily Wire. “It was McConnell’s decision to remove someone who has actually run businesses and ran the third largest state from a committee I’ve served on for four years. You’ll have to ask him why.”
Mike Lee&#8217;s communications director, Lee Lonsberry, told The Daily Wire that the lawmaker “would have liked to stay on as a member of the Commerce Committee, but this change won’t affect the good work he does for the people of Utah and the nation.” McConnell&#8217;s office declined to comment when contacted by The Daily Wire.
Scott <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rick-scott-announces-bid-to-oust-mcconnell-as-senate-gop-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> his opposition campaign to McConnell following the midterm elections, during which Republicans were expected to see a robust majority in the House of Representatives and possibly clinch the majority in the Senate. Democrats instead gained one seat in the upper chamber as Republicans managed to win a razor-thin majority in the House.
In a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23307461-rick-scott-senate-leader-letter?responsive=1&amp;title=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to his colleagues sent days after the midterms, Scott said he was “deeply disappointed” by the results and added that Republican voters failed to see a concrete plan for governance from party leadership. He also cited concerns such as omnibus bills, excessive federal spending, and compromise deals with which most Republicans “disagree.”
“I understand that I won’t gain the support of every member of our Conference, but we all have a clear choice to make. If you simply want to stick with the status quo, don’t vote for me,” he wrote. “I ask for your support in changing the direction of the Senate and rescuing America from the dangerous path Democrats have set it on.”
McConnell <a href="https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1592629761205235712" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the challenge that he had the necessary votes to prevail and forecasted that he would be elected. “I don’t own this job. Anybody in the conference is certainly entitled to challenge me,” he added. “And I welcome the contest.”
While 10 senators, including Lee, voted for Scott, 37 voted for McConnell. “I’m not going anywhere,” McConnell said after the vote, according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/florida-mitch-mcconnell-congress-9f1be1d3635127dbb3e17a3fae1ac86d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press, adding that he was “pretty proud” of the outcome.
The vote among Senate Republicans followed a similarly heated leadership contest among their counterparts in the House. Several members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/seven-house-republicans-list-demands-for-next-speaker-as-mccarthy-battles-for-every-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that the next Speaker of the House should ensure greater representation of conservative-leaning members on important committees, pledge to limit expenditures, and prioritize holding “weaponized” government agencies accountable. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) eventually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-elected-next-speaker-of-the-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">garnered</a> enough Republican votes to assume control of the gavel.

Senate Prepares To Vote On Major Infrastructure Bill

McConnell Boots Two Senators Off Top Committee After They Tried To Oust Him As Leader

McConnell Boots Scott, Lee From Commerce Committee

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Slamming his fellow GOP senators for <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3785395-senate-passes-1-7-trillion-omnibus-spending-package/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voting for the massive omnibus bill</a> pushed by the Democratic Party, Utah GOP Senator Mike Lee, who had authored an amendment that would enable Title 42 to be extended in order to curb illegal immigration, warned of the demise of the Republican Party. The bill passed in the Senate, 68-29; 18 GOP senators <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republican-senators-who-voted-pass-1-7-trillion-omnibus-bill-1769176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted for the bill</a>.
Prior to Lee’s remarks made to Larry Kudlow of Fox News, Kudlow himself had slammed the Senate.
“The way that Senator Mike Lee was treated just a few hours ago on the floor of the Senate makes this the worst [omnibus bill] ever,” Kudlow <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/larry-kudlow-sinema-manchin-switch-defeat-title-42-no-holy-christmas-season-miracle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> of Lee’s attempt to extend Title 42. “Lee had the votes to pass his amendment; it would have been 49-48, but [Majority Leader] Senator Chuck Schumer stepped in to extend the voting time another eight minutes for some arm-twisting. Well, guess whose arms he twisted? Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.”
“That’s right; these two ‘independent-minded’ people, who frequently boast that they are not part of the Left-wing big-government socialist-sponsoring Democratic Party, miraculously changed their votes,” he snapped.
Kudlow pointed out that had Lee’s amendment passed, in all likelihood, the omnibus bill would have failed and then been channeled into a continuing resolution that would not have been voted on until the Republicans took over the House in January, providing the opportunity to significantly change things.
Kudlow noted that Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul had said that the GOP had lost any “power of the purse” and that the GOP had “emasculated” itself.
“This is not a good episode for the Republican Party, is it?” he asked Lee.
“No, not at all,” Lee <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=405965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">answered</a>. “I’m glad you brought up the tax hikes in there, which are themselves problematic, and you’re correct to point out they are not getting the attention they deserve.”
“One of the reasons that this sort of thing can happen and not get much attention in the process – and Republicans can still go through the motions and vote for it, devastatingly – is because it’s folded into a 4,155-page bill, one that was negotiated in secret by four or five members of Congress, held secret from the public until Tuesday morning,” Lee noted, adding, “There’s not a human alive that can digest 4,155 pages of legislative appropriations text in that short period of time.”
“One of the reasons why this should never happen — Republicans, in particular, who do this — they should be asked to never, ever, do it again. We will self-destruct as a party if this ever happens again,” he concluded.

Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Amy Coney Barrett To Be Supreme Court Justice

‘We Will Self-Destruct As A Party’: Mike Lee Warns Senate GOP After They Vote For Massive Omnibus Bill

Mike Lee Warns Senate GOP After They Vote For Massive Omnibus Bill

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Republican Utah Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> introduced two bills this week aimed at combatting online <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pornography" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pornography</a>.
Lee introduced the bills on Wednesday. The Shielding Children&#8217;s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act would direct the FCC to mandate that all pornographic websites adopt age verification technology to keep children from accessing porn online. The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA) would establish a nationwide definition of obscenity, reforming the Supreme Court&#8217;s &#8220;Miller Test&#8221; and enabling prosecution of obscene content transmitted across states or from foreign countries.
“Every day, we&#8217;re learning more about the negative psychological effects pornography has on minors,&#8221; Lee said in a <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/2022/12/sen-lee-introduces-bill-to-protect-children-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> unveiling the SCREEN Act. &#8220;Given the alarming rate of teenage exposure to pornography, I believe the government must act quickly to enact protections that have a real chance of surviving First Amendment scrutiny. We require age verification at brick-and-mortar shops. Why shouldn&#8217;t we require it online?”
The <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/13C602F8-4CA3-4B5E-91DB-7B00393004E7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SCREEN Act</a> would direct the FCC to require commercial websites that regularly create or platform pornographic content to establish age verification technology, to ensure that users of those websites are not minors, and that minors are prevented from accessing the contents of such websites. Notably, the bill explicitly states that any proposed FCC regulation must make clear that simply asking a user to confirm that he or she is a legal adult is not a sufficient screening measure.
The <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/1FDD7596-0E24-4828-8137-F604EEF3CC83" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IODA</a> would establish a federal definition of obscenity that would apply to &#8220;a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction.&#8221; The bill would define obscene content as content that:
<blockquote>(i) taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion;
(ii) depicts, describes, or represents, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual acts, or lewd exhibition of the genitals, with the objective intent to arouse, titillate, or gratify the sexual desires of a person; and
(iii) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.</blockquote>
In a <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/6262B720-BF4B-41B1-8C70-5634CD1D4333" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-pager</a> describing the bill, Lee said that while obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, it is difficult to prosecute under the &#8220;Miller Test,&#8221; the legal test established by the Supreme Court in Miller v. California in 1973. Under the Miller Test, content is only obscene if:
<blockquote>(1) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a 
whole, appeals to the prurient interest; 
(2) the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the 
applicable state law; and 
(3) the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.</blockquote>
&#8220;As we consider the application of the Miller Standard to the internet, we run into serious challenges,&#8221; the one-pager reads. &#8220;Which &#8216;contemporary community standards&#8217; should be applied? Or what &#8216;applicable state law&#8217; should be applied to determine patent offensiveness?&#8221;
&#8220;Because the internet is a ‘channel or instrumentality’ of interstate commerce, Congress’s current obscenity prohibitions are severely diminished,&#8221; it added.
Lee previously proposed a bill in September to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-lawmaker-introduces-first-bill-criminalizing-non-consensual-sexually-explicit-material-200-survivors-show-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevent sexual exploitation</a> on porn sites. The Preventing Rampant Online Technological Exploitation and Criminal Trafficking (PROTECT) Act would require age and consent verification of those depicted in sexually explicit or intimate materials online. It would also allow victims of sexual exploitation to have their images removed and block re-uploads, including any altered or edited versions. Websites that fail to remove the reported content could face penalties of up to $10,000 per day. Victims could also file civil actions against these sites.
Brandon Drey contributed to this report.

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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), fiercely fighting an uphill battle to protect religious freedom, wrote a letter urging his colleagues to attach his amendment to the Respect for Marriage Act, which seeks to codify same-sex marriage into law.
Lee’s amendment passionately defends the right of religious people and religious institutions from predatory actions of the Federal government. In Lee’s letter to his colleagues, he notes a frightening exchange between Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Obama administration Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in 2015 during the oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Supreme Court required states to license and recognize same-sex marriage.
When Alito asked whether religious universities opposed to same-sex marriage would lose their tax-exempt status, Verrilli replied, “It&#8217;s certainly going to be an issue. I don&#8217;t deny that. I don&#8217;t deny that, Justice Alito — it is going to be an issue.”
“And it is an issue,” Lee writes in his letter. “Obergefell did not make a private right of action for aggrieved individuals to sue those who oppose same-sex marriage. It did not create a mandate for the Department of Justice to sue where it perceived an institution opposed same-sex marriage, but the Respect for Marriage Act will. What we can expect should this bill become law is more litigation against those institutions and individuals trying to live according to their sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions.”
“As we move forward, let us be sure to keep churches, religious charities, and religious universities out of litigation in the first instance. No American should face legal harassment or retaliation from the federal government for holding sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions,” Lee cautions his colleagues.
“My amendment would ensure that federal bureaucrats do not take discriminatory actions against individuals, organizations, nonprofits, and other entities based or their sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions about marriage by prohibiting the denial or revocation of tax exempt status, licenses, contracts, benefits, etc. It would affirm that individuals still have the right to act according to their faith and deepest convictions even outside of their church or home,” Lee explains.
“The free exercise of religion is absolutely essential to the health of our Republic. We must have the courage to protect it,” he concluded.
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We still have time to protect religious liberty. We’re asking our colleagues to support my amendment. <a href="https://t.co/y7JXkxNXTZ">pic.twitter.com/y7JXkxNXTZ</a>
&mdash; Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1594043506842017792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lee’s <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/CB39DE23-EF22-4CDC-B645-BF756A5F94D1">amendment</a> states: &#8220;The federal government may not take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is or should be recognized as a union of — one man and one woman, or two individuals as recognized under Federal law.&#8221;
The amendment states that “discriminatory action” includes an action taken by the Federal government to “alter in any way the Federal tax treatment of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be assessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemption of taxation” to any of the people of whom the preceding paragraph refers to.
The amendment also forbids “discriminatory action” including disallowing a deduction for Federal tax purposes of any charitable contribution by the aforesaid people, as well as withholding Federal grants, funds, etc., from such people.
“A person may assert an actual or threatened violation of this title as a claim or a defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding and obtain compensatory damages, injunctive relief, declaratory relief or any other appropriate relief against the Federal government,” the amendment declares.

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Over 200 victims of image-based sexual abuse worldwide signed a <a href="https://endsexualexploitation.org/wp-content/uploads/ProtectAct_SurvivorLetter-w-Signatures.pdf">letter</a> supporting new legislation a Republican lawmaker introduced last month requiring age and consent verification of those depicted in sexually explicit or intimate materials online.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). who introduced the <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/52B309C1-784C-4BFA-8487-1355D3592504">The Preventing Rampant Online Technological Exploitation and Criminal Trafficking Act</a>, otherwise known as the PROTECT Act, comes as lawmakers and victims look for solutions to solve the child sexual abuse imagery epidemic that has grown exponentially since the late 1990s when the Internet started becoming a household necessity.
&#8220;Pornography sites need to do more to prevent the exploitation that is occurring on their platforms and allow individuals to remove images shared without their consent,&#8221; Lee said in a <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/2022/9/lee-bill-protects-victims-of-image-based-sexual-abuse/49fa886b-86ec-45d7-9504-5315d7f83f33">statement</a>. &#8220;The PROTECT Act is a step in that direction.&#8221;
Lee&#8217;s statement included recent data from Utah law enforcement reporting a 600% increase in cases involving child pornography and sexual contact with minors since 2020.
While <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Nonconsensual_pornography_(revenge_porn)_laws_in_the_United_States">46 states</a> in the union have laws prohibiting producing and distributing nonconsensual sexual content, the federal law has remained helpless for victims.
Reports of child sexual abuse material have exponentially increased since the Internet, which has revolutionized the pornography industry and consequently created a breeding ground for child sexual abuse material.
According to the bill, reports of child sexual abuse material grew from 3,000 reports in 1998 to more than 1,000,000 7 in 2014 and 18,400,000 in 2018 in the United States.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which supports Sen. Lee&#8217;s bill, reports more than 29,300,000 reports of suspected child sex abuse material were recorded to its CyberTipline in 2021, marking the highest number it has received in a single year.
Survivors of such abuses to this day have no rights under federal law to have the material removed from the Internet. The proposed landmark legislation would be the first time federal law would protect victims of all ages who have been subject to image-based sexual abuse from websites monetizing and distributing their abuse, which usually garners millions of views for users to watch criminal content or consume private material.
Survivors of image-based sexual abuse online have often spent hundreds of hours attempting to get the content removed. Yet, despite their efforts, their attempts would fail, taking weeks or even months for the images to be completely taken down.
But by that time, the images had already been saved, shared, and re-uploaded to other platforms around the globe with little to zero accountability for such websites that have generated revenue off of the vulnerability of men, women, and children.
Uldouz Wallace, actress and survivor-leader, was one of the celebrities who had their privacy invaded in 2014 after a hacker spread personal photographs from various digital devices across the Internet in the iCloud Data Breach.
Uldouz told The Daily Wire her privacy was first compromised when a former partner recorded explicit images and video of her without her consent. And when it was further published online by a group of hackers responsible for the iCloud leak, the news devastated her.
&#8220;My heart dropped, and I was just mortified,&#8221; Uldouz said.
Uldouz said she isolated herself when she began facing harassment from her peers, backlash from her sponsors, and disassociation from potential employers. She stayed silent about her story for the last eight years.
After time spent recovering from the experience and researching how to shield future generations from becoming targets of online abuse, she used her pain to help solve the ongoing problem.
&#8220;Since nobody else is doing something, then I&#8217;m going to do something about it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because all of us are told not to talk about it. Don&#8217;t bring more attention to it. But the worst has already happened. I mean, how much worse could it get than what&#8217;s already happened to me?&#8221;
Uldouz testified on Capitol Hill last summer, urging members of Congress to create laws to criminalize the spreading of non-consensual images and videos online.
If passed, the law would allow victims to have their images removed and block re-uploads, including any altered or edited versions, while using the law to bring a civil action in district court to seek damages.
Websites that have allowed such uploads and fail to remove the reported content could also face penalties of up to $10,000 per day.
Among the survivors who signed the letter of support for Congress to pass the legislation also included celebrities Terry Crews, Whitney Cummings, Marisol Nichols, and Mexican activist Olimpia Coral Melo Cruz.

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Utah GOP Senator Mitt Romney, who has been suspected of being <a href="https://heritageaction.com/scorecard/members/R000615/117">squishy</a> on conservative issues, has refused to endorse fellow Utah GOP Senator Mike Lee, a strong conservative in his re-election campaign, outraging his fellow GOP senators.
Lee, an expert on the Constitution, is facing Evan McMullin in November. McMullin ran a campaign in 2016 that likely siphoned votes from Donald Trump in his battle with Hillary Clinton.
As for McMullin, a Washington Post columnist <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/18/evan-mcmullin-tries-thread-needle-utah/">acknowledged</a> last February that after his campaign to derail Trump, McMullin “became an independent and founded a political organization called Stand Up Republic that worked to defeat far-right candidates in GOP primaries and to elect moderate Democrats like President Biden.”
“He considers both friends, so I don’t expect him to make an endorsement in this race,” a “source close to Romney” told the Post columnist.
On September 9, Lee posted a list of the GOP senators who supported him for re-election. Every GOP senator was listed except one: Romney. “I am grateful for the support of my Senate colleagues. Together, we will continue the fight for the American people. The failures of the Biden Administration and Democrats have damaged our nation for long enough,” Lee tweeted.
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I am grateful for the support of my Senate colleagues. Together, we will continue the fight for the American people. The failures of the Biden Administration and Democrats have damaged our nation for long enough. <a href="https://t.co/EyeeWg7ySg">pic.twitter.com/EyeeWg7ySg</a>
&mdash; Mike Lee (@MikeLeeforUtah) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeLeeforUtah/status/1568250594225434624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lee’s campaign spokesman stated that the senators on the list had either publicly endorsed Lee, donated to his campaign, or expressed support for him, Deseret News <a href="https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/9/9/23345036/mike-lee-support-republican-senators-except-mitt-romney-not-endorse-evan-mcmullin">reported</a>.
Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/29/gop-senators-baffled-by-mitt-romneys-ploy-to-oust-mike-lee-and-maybe-thwart-a-majority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> to various GOP senators about Romney’s refusal to back Lee. One told her, “I respect [Romney], and I understand that each state has its own dynamics, but I do not understand why he is remaining neutral. Whatever our differences, we all try to support each other around election time.”
“We should not have to be worried about Utah in any way. I don’t know what he thinks he’s doing, but it’s not going over well, particularly with the [senators] who are up for chairmanships,” another senator told her.
The Washington Post’s Henry Olsen <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/mitt-romneys-refusal-endorse-mike-lee-is-betrayal-his-party/">pointed out</a> as far back as March, “It should be a no-brainer for Romney to endorse his fellow Republican. Regaining control of the Senate is one of the GOP’s most important objectives, and that means marshaling every conceivable vote to make that happen.”
On July 4, America’s Independence Day, Romney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mitt-romney-praises-genuinely-good-man-biden-who-once-accused-him-of-wanting-to-enslave-blacks">praised</a> President Joe Biden while disparaging former President Donald Trump, writing in The Atlantic, “President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust. A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable.”
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The Hill columnist and Fox News analyst <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/juan-williams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juan Williams</a> threw his analysis behind failed presidential candidate <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/evan-mcmullin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Evan McMullin</a>, arguing that the independent Senate candidate could win against incumbent Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) — because of &#8220;Star Wars.&#8221;
Williams laid out the case for McMullin — and for a viable third party in general — in a <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/3660943-juan-williams-an-odd-race-in-utah-gives-hope-to-the-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">column</a> published by The Hill on Monday. He noted that the race was certainly a long shot, especially for a third-party candidate, and compared it to the final scene of &#8220;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.&#8221; McMullin, he said, was no different from Luke Skywalker attempting to take out the Death Star.
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What makes <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Utah?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Utah</a> significant is that <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanMcMullin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EvanMcMullin</a> win potentially opens a new way for politicians to get out of the rut of polarized, do-nothing, two-party politics. Think of Evan as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars trying to blow up the Empire’s starship. <a href="https://t.co/4ZQ2yBctQF">https://t.co/4ZQ2yBctQF</a>
&mdash; Juan Williams (@TheJuanWilliams) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJuanWilliams/status/1574864969304346624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Williams&#8217; column, titled &#8220;An odd race in Utah gives hope to the nation,&#8221; opened with the fact that only eight independent U.S. Senators have been elected since 1971 — and noted that the Utah race is just strange enough to possibly deliver a ninth.
Dubbed &#8220;the strangest Senate race in America&#8221; by Politico, the Utah Senate race features an incumbent Republican (Lee), no Democrat, and McMullin running as an independent. McMullin has the support of some Utah Democrats in this contest.
&#8220;What takes it beyond strange to significant is that a McMullin win potentially opens a new way for politicians to get out of the rut of polarized, do-nothing, two-party politics,&#8221; Williams opined. &#8220;Think of McMullin as Luke Skywalker, the rebel pilot in Star Wars, trying to blow up the Empire’s star ship.&#8221;
Williams went on to note that American voters have often said that they would like to see a viable <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/329639/support-third-political-party-high-point.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third-party</a> option — but that when it came time to vote, nothing changed.
&#8220;Last year, 62 percent of voters told Gallup they want a third-party alternative to the Republicans and Democrats. Those numbers mean McMullin is an underdog in the right place at the right time to benefit from widespread discontent,&#8221; Williams explained, adding, &#8220;In other words, to continue the Star Wars analogy, a lot of people well beyond Utah’s corners are hoping &#8216;The Force&#8217; is with McMullin.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lee-narrowly-leads-evan-mcmullin-utah-senate-race-poll-2022-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent polling</a>, Lee still holds a slight lead over McMullin — 36%-34% — but another 16% of those polled said that they had not yet made a decision about the race.
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated McMullin ran as a Republican in 2016. He ran as an Independent.

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On Wednesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states">United States</a> Senate passed a bill subsidizing semiconductors that proponents say will allow America to compete with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a> while bolstering supply chains, but critics warn the legislation is nothing more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy">corporate welfare</a>.
The Senate <a href="https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-07-27/majority-of-u-s-senate-backs-bill-boosting-chipmakers-to-compete-with-china">passed</a> the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science act in a bipartisan vote of 64-33. The bill will dedicate $52 billion in government subsidies for computer chip-making companies, alongside $24 billion in tax credits, while putting forth $170 billion in scientific research over the next five years. Folks like Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) argue that the bill is a complete waste of taxpayer money.
“It makes no sense whatsoever,” Johnson <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/27/wisconsin-ron-johnson-votes-no-measure-boost-u-s-made-semiconductor-chips/10156283002/">said</a> in an interview. “We have more than enough money sloshed around the economy to invest in semiconductor manufacturing here. It’s about aligning the incentives properly. We’re not looking at that at all. We’re just throwing more money at the problem, which is what Washington does.&#8221;
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) also criticized the bill, arguing that it favors folks at the top of the economic food chain by taxing those making less.
&#8220;The poorer you are, the more you suffer,&#8221; Lee <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/27/senate-passes-chips-act-to-subsidize-domestic-semiconductor-production/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIujo0T60zHCSqUEqeW1aaFTKq8lsXwqXY8C-M576A2nxmJH_HlCn9CHdNy48CV8WK9QgCv4FpBBQ8xJbv7_xlxgKaP7RouDD9xnWgAJiK9XxdTTYHLLvw9JYiXpE_r30tZMGIms5gMOEWgzW7Q_EV6o3x1EUNU9neO9yTqeajdt">said</a> prior to the vote. &#8220;Even people well-entrenched in the middle class get gouged considerably. Why we would want to take money away from them and give it to the wealthy is beyond my ability to fathom.&#8221;
On Wednesday, Lee tweeted, &#8220;Next time you file your taxes remember the Senate just voted to give $75 billion to huge chip manufacturers—regardless of whether they use that money in the USA.&#8221;
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Next time you file your taxes remember the Senate just voted to give $75 billion to huge chip manufacturers—regardless of whether they use that money in the USA.
&mdash; Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1552385542817546247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lee&#8217;s counterpart, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), praised the bill for boosting global competition with the Chinese Communist Party.
&#8220;Remaining competitive with China is critical to our security and economic well-being,&#8221; Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney/status/1552342653672595456?s=20&amp;t=tDMX5TddJDS4uD46ZVjQFA">tweeted</a> on Wednesday. &#8220;Proud to join my colleagues in passing a package of China bills that will promote innovation, foster scientific talent, expand research, and break our dependence on China for microchips.&#8221;
Yet Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) condemned the plan, noting that the tech companies which would receive government funding have been raking in billions in recent years.
&#8220;The five biggest semi-conductor companies that will likely receive the lion’s share of this taxpayer handout, Intel, Texas Instruments, Micron Technology, Global Foundries and Samsung, made $70 billion in profits last year,&#8221; Sanders <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/27/senate-passes-chips-act-to-subsidize-domestic-semiconductor-production/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIujo0T60zHCSqUEqeW1aaFTKq8lsXwqXY8C-M576A2nxmJH_HlCn9CHdNy48CV8WK9QgCv4FpBBQ8xJbv7_xlxgKaP7RouDD9xnWgAJiK9XxdTTYHLLvw9JYiXpE_r30tZMGIms5gMOEWgzW7Q_EV6o3x1EUNU9neO9yTqeajdt">said</a> in a recent statement about the CHIPS act. “Does it sound like these companies really need corporate welfare?&#8221;
Advocates of the spending hailed it for protecting national security and giving our economy a boost.
&#8220;This legislation is going to create good paying jobs, it will alleviate supply chains, it will help lower costs, and it will protect America’s national security interests,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-07-27/majority-of-u-s-senate-backs-bill-boosting-chipmakers-to-compete-with-china">said</a> in a statement.
Republican Senator John Cornyn (TX) also praised the bill.
&#8220;This is a bad day for President Xi and the Chinese Communist party,&#8221; Cornyn remarked after its passage. &#8220;The slumbering giant that is America has finally awakened to the challenge that we face from the People&#8217;s Republic of China.&#8221;
President Joe Biden also tweeted that he and his staff took a moment to watch the Senate vote on the bill.
&#8220;I took a moment today to watch the Senate pass the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan bill that will accelerate semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It will lower prices, create jobs, and – critically – decrease our reliance on imported chips. The House should pass it ASAP.&#8221;
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I took a moment today to watch the Senate pass the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan bill that will accelerate semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.
It will lower prices, create jobs, and – critically – decrease our reliance on imported chips.
The House should pass it ASAP. <a href="https://t.co/dnsa3xVdDr">pic.twitter.com/dnsa3xVdDr</a>
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1552346838229032960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It is expected that the House will vote on the bill sometime this week.

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